A Dinosaur Farewell?
Turtles will share the fate of dinosaurs in a few years—extinction. In fact, turtles belong to the species placed under international protection. Their nesting sites in Sorong and East Kalimantan will determine the turtle population in Indonesia.
February 17, 2009
THE unpleasant news came from a national workshop on the conservation and management of turtles in Jember, East Java, at the end of December. The population of sea turtles in Indonesian waters was said to keep shrinking. The decrease is substantial, reaching 40-80 percent annually.
Ida Bagus Windia Adnyana, a turtle researcher from Udayana University, Bali, was the person revealing the facts and figures. The damage of their habitat, the large-s
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